This is Charles Rennie Mackintosh .
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This is Charles Rennie
Mackintosh.
He was an innovator and undoubtedly one of Scotland’s most
celebrated architects.
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He was born in Glasgow in 1868.
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Although Mackintosh was working within the conventions of formal architecture during the early 1890s, he began to work more freely as an artist, producing:
sketches watercolours posters
The Tree of Personal Effort.Sketch of Maybole Castle. A poster for the Scottish Musical
Review.
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He was part of a group of architects
and designers, including his wife
Margaret, working in what has
become known as “The Glasgow
Style”.
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Mackintosh was commissioned to design and build a small number of buildings in Glasgow.
Martyr's Public School.
Glasgow School of Art.
Entrance to Glasgow School of Art.
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Mackintosh first major domestic commission was Windyhill. This was a private house designed for
William Davidson.
Drawing of Windyhill.
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On completing William Davidson’s house, Windyhill, Walter Blackie, a publisher, was so impressed that
asked Mackintosh to design a house for him: the Hill House.
Drawing of the Hill House.
The Hill House.
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All the rooms and furnitures in these houses were designed by Mackintosh himself.
Cabinets.Chairs.
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In late-Victorian Glasgow, tea rooms were beginning to flourish as respectable meeting-places.
In 1903 Mackintosh designed and create the Willow Tea Rooms, in Sauchiehall street, Glasgow.
Doors in Willow Tea Rooms.
Willow Tea Rooms.
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Just before the outbreak of the First World War, Charles and Margaret left Glasgow.
Mackintosh produced some of his finest pencil and watercolour paintings of flowers.
Fritillaria.
Fritillaria Walberswick.
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In 1923 the Mackintoshes set off for the South of France. Here, Mackintosh regained some of his
energies, which he put into perfecting his technique as a watercolourist.
A Southern Port. (Portvendres)
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During the autumn of that year Mackintosh became unwell and he went to London with Margaret.
After a final short illness, Mackintosh died in 1928, aged 60.